Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

cleverness is a disease.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.