No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Was he trying to rescue her?She fought not to roll her eyes. Men.

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

I know people dont think I work.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.