There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.