I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

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

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

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

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