You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

I have drunken deep of joy.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak