I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and its total crap to pretend its not

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

No Victory Without Suffering

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.