"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

"Modern society has lost its way, consumed by materialism and superficiality."

"Art is the highest form of hope."

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

"Stories are the antibodies against the viruses of chaos."

Poetry is the language of the soul, spoken in the rhythm of the heart.

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.