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"Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own."

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."

"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."


"Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing."


"It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way."


"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."


"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."


"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."


"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"


"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."


"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."
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