What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.