How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.