Nothing Is More Trying Than

Nothing, Except The Weather Report Or A General Maxim Of Conduct, Is So Unsafe To Rely Upon As A Theory Of Fiction.

... To Be "literary" Appeared To My Deluded Innocence As An Unending Romance.

There Is No Monster More Destructive Than The Inventive Mind That Has Outstripped Philosophy.

Few Forms Of Life Are So Engaging As Birds.

I'm Not Going To Lie Down And Let Trouble Walk Over Me.