The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.