Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.

"A story is a form of telepathy."

Life is composed of lights and shadows,and we would be untruthful,insincere,and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."