It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.