First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.