any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.