Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

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

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.