Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”
In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in "Just A Couple Of Legends" CBS News.com (20 May 1998) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/05/20/entertainment/main9899.shtml
“I’m worse at what I do best.”
Variant: I´m worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed.
The Washington Post: "Thought process: Building an artificial brain" http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/09/30/brain/ (30 September 2015)
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
“I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.”
He arrived in Saigon on the day that Vietcong agents blew up an American officers' billet.
New York Times obituary, July 28, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28CND-HOPE.html?pagewanted=1
