“Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.”
“It is a lie that you should only speak from your heart- you ought to let your brain play a part too.”
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.”
“My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.Of course.”
“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place”
“the spoons jumped off the rack. And a couple of times I've heard a man call my name when no one else was here”