If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.