I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Throw off your grief, ' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Most people never listen.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

It is important to recognize the small successes.