Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.