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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own."

"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."

"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."

"I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various."