Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.