I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Every successful man knows what a persevering life it was to achieve his goal.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

Were here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.