A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young