Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

One place understood helps us understand all places better

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

Beware of a man with manners.