All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Useless as a pulled tooth.