You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.