...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.