I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

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.

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are brighter than you are, or they know more about the subject than you do, or they wish they had written a book themselves, or done a lot better. Or they just don't like it! And you have to live with it.