But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.