I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Setting. . . is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Every day is not perfect.
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today. '
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.