A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going?

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.