“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen a...”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”