You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.