Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.