Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.