The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.