A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.