You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt