“I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartmentall alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a ca...”

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots,...”

“The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.”

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”