Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.