A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

Life never end when you are in it.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.