I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

Writers will be judged by what they write.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.