I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.

The fact is that there is nothing more beautiful, more worthy or more conscious than you.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)