The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.