Having books published is very destructive to writing.

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?