You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.