There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good