Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.

Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

How could I be out there and not do anything?

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

You have to recharge your batteries.

Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.