You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.