If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.