I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.