Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.