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

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

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 fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.