First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I write novels and other things.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

When love comes first, actions will follow.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Don't aim too high, but set yourself a goal which is a little bit out of your reach. You might achieve it and then you can set a new goal.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing