To See A Shadow And

Life Was A Series Of Messes, And One Spent One's Time Cleaning Them Up; If One Had Any Heart At All One Also Gave A Part Of One's Time To Cleaning Up Those Of Other People.

Luck Enters Into Every Contingency. You Are A Fool If You Forget It -- And A Greater Fool If You Count Upon It.

To See A Shadow And Think It Is A Tree That Is A Pity; But To See A Tree And To Think It A Shadow Can Be Fatal.

Human Beings Don't Show, Any More Than Cities At Dusk, Their Real Necessities! And Yet If You Looked -- Past The Circle Of Outside Lights, Through The Street Walls Still Standing -- Into The Want And Emptiness Within!

If A Writer Is True To His Characters They Will Give Him His Plot. Observations Must Play Second Fiddle To Integrity.