Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.