"My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons."

"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."

"Half my life is an act of revision."

"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."

"The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it."

"Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home."

"I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most."

"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."