“The past is already documented and the present is taking shape with every moment, but the future is always in-view.”

“There is no better Eraser for the past than a good use of the present.”

“Tenacity bores failure.”

“Faith is simply jumping from heights and believing that the parachute activation button won't disappoint.”

“Sometimes people dont understandthe promises theyre making when they make them, I said.Isaac shot me a look. Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. Thatswhat love is. Love is keeping the...”

“He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.”

“... I will keep the silence... do the same...”

“Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.”

“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”

“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”