All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
The more you reason the less you create.
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.