... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.