Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

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

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.