Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

One does not consider style, because style is.

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.

The virus was rapidly spreading. It had infected his mind, eating away at everything except thoughts of her.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Please proceed, Governor.

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.