Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.