Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.