My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.