Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.