Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

In the light, we shine brightly.

I am a Cartesian clear and distinct object on this pyramidal peak of the mountain, where the echoes trail off almost forever the horizon.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.