New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.