When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky