The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.