“Art should be a place of hope.”

“Art should be a place of hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing.”

“I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.”

“As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?”

“Will I like it Jake? In your place?''I hope so, hon.''Is it very different?'I smiled. 'People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same.”

“If you're going into a dark place... you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?”

“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”