Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

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.

It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

We're burnin' daylight!

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.