The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.