There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.