What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

I don't like to say I'm happy. The Universe always finds out and corrects its mistake.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.