Time is the only critic.

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.

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.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

Our image is here and will for ever stay, and there is comfort in knowing that the memory of our lives will always be there, traveling among the stars.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

The private sector is doing fine.

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

There's no political point worth my son's life.

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you.