There Was A Time When Young People

I'm Sure That Everybody Feels A Kind Of Permanent Anguish About What's Going On In The World.

For With My Intuition I Knew That This Man Was Repeating A Pattern Over And Over Again: Courting A Woman With His Intelligence And Sympathy, Claiming Her Emotionally; Then, When She Began To Claim In Return, Running Away. And The Better A Woman Was, The Sooner He Would Begin To Run. I Knew This With My Intuition, And Yet I Sat There In My Dark Room, Looking At The Hazed Wet Brilliance Of The Purple London Night Sky, Longing With My Whole Being.

You Have To Give Up A Great Deal Of Life, Your Personal Life, To Be A Writer.

I Don't Think In Terms Of Optimism And Pessimism When Writing A Story. I Am Telling A Story.

It Can Be Considered A Rule That The Probable Duration Of An Empire May Be Prognosticated By The Degree To Which Its Rulers Believe In Their Own Propaganda.