The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.