If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

(Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.