When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

no knowledge obtained without risk

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.