Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.