Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.