I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.