Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

Sweetheart, for you, I’d share whatever you asked.

Summer-induced stupidity.That was the diagnosis...

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.