It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

When we know better, we do better.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.