The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.