It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?