A short story is simplification to the highest degree

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Live deep instead of fast.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.