Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.