Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].