Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.