"He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more."

"Self-astonishment is achieved when, by some process I can't fathom, common words are moved, or move themsel…"

"And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gai…"

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a hors…"

"Drawing with scissors: To cut to the quick in color reminds me of the direct cutting of sculptors."

"Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and…"

"The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of av…"