I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?