it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

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.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.