Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Live it up so you can write it down.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.