Western man is schizophrenic.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

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

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