She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.”

“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selec…”

“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. M…”

“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face …”