I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.