To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

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

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

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.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.