“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.”

“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”

“Agitation from the other side of the desk.Nonow you must take this phlegmatically. You had hoped you would qualify. You had feared you would not. Actually, both hope and fear are weaknesses. You kn...”

“What lasts in the readers mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, whats it doing there? Make it do its job o...”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”