Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Life is like a boxing match, keep on throwing those punches and one of them will land.Kevin Lane - The Shawshank Prevention

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.