Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.