…the cardinal labor of composition, which is excision…

“As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a…”

“The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill.”

“What people had had shed and left--a pair of shoes, a shooting cap, some faded …”

“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; som…”