in nonsense is strength

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may work, that the other people are doing the real stuff.

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.