The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.