Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.