It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you’re a nice egg but you’ve got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.