All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

My big fish must be somewhere.