I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.