A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.