All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.