The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.