If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.