... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

A big cigar in a young face requires the best of both.

Inside a dark well, everyman's favourite colour is blue!

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I think any label is bad... I'm more than a label.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.