The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Family. A snug kind of word.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Hey, people ... Do not complain about walking on a Monday if you stayed in folded arms on a Sunday.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.