This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.