I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.