[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.