You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.