Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.