Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.