It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.