What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.