“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

“I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk.”

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

“No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.”

“Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”