With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

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