There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not.

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.