In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

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.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

I'm lucky to be alive. It took three years of therapy to recover but I did it.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Man lives for science as well as bread.