You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.