"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity."

"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime."

"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."

"My main hope for myself is to be where I am."

"Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date."

"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."

"I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud."

"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."

"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youa€?re doing, or it comes out flat. You cana€?t fake your way through this."

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."