All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

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.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

You see in others who you are.

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

A man had to learn, it was his nature.