Who said “I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would…”?

“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.”

“Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.”

“Never say ''oops'' in the operating room.”

“Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.”

“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”

“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”

“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”