It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.