When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project or situation - not about it

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.