The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

A peaceful spirit, a prosperous soul.

I'm not made to fit into the society's definition of me. I've got freedom to define myself. You too, if you know!

Life is easy with a little offer and Competitive with facts.

To go where no man has gone before, follow the steps of Jesus.

Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.