I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.