I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Not the why but the what.