“It’s better to look at the sky than live there.”

Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

Good writing is rewriting.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.

Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

A boy has to peddle his book.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.