Letters Are Largely Written To Get Things

The Creation Of A World View Is The Work Of A Generation Rather Than Of An Individual, But We Each Of Us, For Better Or For Worse, Add Our Brick To The Edifice.

People Don't Choose Their Careers; They Are Engulfed By Them.

I Never See The Dawn That I Don't Say To Myself Perhaps.

We Work To Eat To Get The Strength To Work To Eat To Get The Strength To Work.

The Only Excuse For A Novelist, Aside From The Entertainment And Vicarious Living His Books Give The People Who Read Them, Is As A Sort Of Second-class Historian Of The Age He Lives In. The "reality" He Missed By Writing About Imaginary People, He Gains By Being Able To Build A Reality More Nearly Out Of His Own Factual Experience Than A Plain Historian Or Biographer Can.