Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.