A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

If I walked in there right now, you would beg me to make you scream.""Oh, please, " she said sarcastically."We wouldn't make it to a bed before I would be deep inside you.

No culture is without access to divine mysteries.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.