Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.