We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

We didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy.

When all was over, torture and cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and …

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain la…

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip t…

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.