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

What memories for mud to have.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.