We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.