An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain

Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, r…

Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance fo…

When Mr. John P. Gavit, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, wrote to Mr. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, that I had a rep…

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.