Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

If you are a police dog, where's your badge?