How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
How plotless real life was!
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
. . . if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
For me, writing something down was the only road out. . . I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.