His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed