Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.

Total violent crime in the United States 2013: (Number:1, 163, 146), (Rate per 100, 000: 367.9).

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.

Survival's the thing, isn't it?

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.