A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

So many things people say may seem so good and right

One of our goals is to encourage people that there is hope, there is a future.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

The ideal racecar will expire 100 yards past the finish line.