I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

About potentials, , decipher(decode), discern, decide and determine what they are

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.