Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.