The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.