Well, He Died. You Don't Get Any

So Many Things Were Testing His Faith. There Was The Bible, Of Course, But The Bible Was A Book, And So Were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome And The Last Of The Mohicans. Did It Then Seem Probable, As He Had Once Overheard Dunbar Ask, That The Answers To Riddles Of Creation Would Be Supplied By People Too Ignorant To Understand The Mechanics Of Rainfall? Had Almighty God, In All His Infinite Wisdom, Really Been Afraid That Men Six Thousand Years Ago Would Succeed In Building A Tower To Heaven?

Peace On Earth Would Mean The End Of Civilization As We Know It.

I Don't Think It's Good To Achieve Too Much At Too Early An Age. What Else Can The Future Give You If You've Already Got All That Your Imagination Has Dreamt Up For You? A Writer Is Only Discovered Once In A Lifetime, And If It Happens Very Early The Impossibility Of Matching That Moment Again Can Have A Somewhat Corrosive Effect On His Personality And Indeed On The Work Itself.

Nately Had A Bad Start. He Came From A Good Family.

She Was The Epitome Of Stately Sorrow Each Time She Smiled.