Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know anything about it, then their case is hopeless.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them