Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.

Out here in Amish. Smokin big doinks in Amish. Gang.

Her suspense was terrible.

They were nothing more than modern day pagan worshippers. Congregants of a religion built on greed and hedonism. The trading floor served as their shrine

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Believe and you're halfway there.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.