Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.