Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.