Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

You cannot write well without data.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

It was the call of workers who organized

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.