Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

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

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.