I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

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.

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

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

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian