Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

You've such a lovely temperature.