We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.