If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

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

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.