Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.

All young men want to prove themselves.