“Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.”
“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.”
“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”
“The story I am going to tell has more than one beginning and without an end.”
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
“For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.”