It was a dark story.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

I have a lot of African-American friends.