Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.