A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research

I will learn by screwing up.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.