You don't get creative by staying in the same place.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.

We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.