“See the big picture. You are committed to writing or finding out about it. Continue under all circumstances. Don't be rigid though.”

“There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.”

“I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all upon the subject.”

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.”

“Little Indian, Big City is one of the worst movies ever made. I detested every moronic minute of it…if you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again.”

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

“A big surprise is coming toward you. How clear do you want to be about all your current commitments, when it hits?”

“I heard Senator Sam Irvin of Watergate fame say something that stayed with me: 'If you can paint a really good picture of a cow, you don't have to write the word "cow" under it.'”

“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”