I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.