Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

A writer wastes nothing.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Englishmen must have an island.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.