Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.