Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.