The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

Fiction is an improvement on life

Let' em learn or let' em die

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire