I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.