The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.
The charm of horror only tempts the strong
I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
To those who will see, the world waits.
Forget about weird Boy and move on
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.
Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.
