A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.