The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
And I am in retirement from love.
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.