Day dreaming is actually research for the next book.

From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prestwick the clouds were down like the black cap on a hanging judge.

When communication in unclear speculations takes precedence.

Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.