The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.