Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy