Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The funny thing is, in reality we all just presume that life is going to happen when we wake up in the morning. What if it didn’t?

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

You don't have to have a disability to be different.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.