When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

Success can be elusive

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.