Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.