All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.