The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.