There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
All intimacies are based on differences.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.