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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

And I can’t think of a reason I’d ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn’t want to publish something that I didn’t like enough to put my name on it.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?