If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.