Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.