He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.