I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.