Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Let your peace be a victory!

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

There is no substitute for an ecstatic consumer.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.