The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The negative is just as important as the positive.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap

When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.