Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.