Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.