Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.