Dogs Are A Habit, I Think.

No One Of The Characters In My Novels Has Originated, So Far As I Know, In Real Life. If Anything, The Contrary Was The Case: Persons Playing A Part In My Life--the First Twenty Years Of It--had About Them Something Semi-fictitious.

Certain Books Come To Meet Me, As Do People.

All Good Dialogue Perhaps Deals With Something Unprecedented.

Nothing Can Happen Nowhere. The Locale Of The Happening Always Colours The Happening, And Often, To A Degree, Shapes It.

We Desert Those Who Desert Us; We Cannot Afford To Suffer; We Must Live How We Can.