I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

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.

The highest form of intelligence is wisdom

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

I dont eat anything on an airplane.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.