Occupation: Writer Birth: August 22, 1920 Death: June 5, 2012
There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entir….
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide ….
Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer..
Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have yo….
I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile.
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their….
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it..
The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the win….
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love..
You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem….
Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen..
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you'r….
And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over..
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history..
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events..
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation..
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending..
In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you'….
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever..
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely ….