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.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

A cat has absolute honesty.