To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?