Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.