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

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

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

I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.