We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.