You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.