You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

This girl holds my heart in her hand and she's squishing it to nothing with her confession.

The real test for your ethics, is with you deal with bad persons, ethics coms normally with deal with the honest type.

No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.