A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

I wasn’t the smartest kid in town but I’ve always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it’s bound to rub off.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.

It ain’t brave if you ain’t scared.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event,...