To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

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

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.