Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.