If the public likes you, you're good.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.

I didn't come to play. I came to win.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.