No one ever stopped when they were winning.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.