In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.