I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Human-nature will not change.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.