Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.