He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

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