Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.

Read. Learn. Write. Travel.

I should probably warn you, my love isn't roses and champagne. I'm obsessive, jealous, and controlling, but I'm faithful and I'll be here when you need someone.

Abraham, " he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend.""And I to see you dead.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

All you Jews can go straight to hell.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.