The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

Success is that old ABC- ability breaks and courage.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

There is danger in everything that we do.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.