The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.