I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

I wish I had more confidence.

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.