Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.