I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Memory is this, not the target dead on centerbut the hurt unwept.

There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.