Practice. It's not about perfect, it's about practice.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

As Christmas approaches remember all that you have experienced - has not been in vain.

If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.