"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic."

"I wonder what you would have done, if you had not been a writer."

"I'm not a good person. I'm not a bad person. I'm just a person."

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."