Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.