To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.