The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

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.

If you hide the talents, you hide your brand. It’s simple.

You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.