"There is no sinner like a young saint." Aphra Johnson
"Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together." George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"He was like a dry cracker. Brittle." Edna Ferber
"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead." Ralph Waldo Ellison