Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.