Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

A writer wastes nothing.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.