They write them long because they can't write them short.
One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.