There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

A closed mind is a dying mind.