We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with 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.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.