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.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.