She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.