Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

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