If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!