Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.