I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?