Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

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.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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

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.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.