People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

I would love to direct videos and that's what it keeps moving towards, but I have to stop being scared in order to do that.

I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.