Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

He couldn’t stop the grin that spread across his face. Who knew Miss California would be good in a bar fight.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

I became a vegan because I'm better than you

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.