Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Half a brain is better than none.

As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.