I never went to college, so I went to the library.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

My job is to help you fall in love.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.