I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.