Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.