We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.
Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years. . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
. . . survival is the least of my desires.
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.