Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul bleeds. From that blood, stories are born. It's worth it.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

I'm going to escape now.

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Happiness is the best adventure on earth.