He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Shut up,' he explained.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back, ' and so on. But they are all stories.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.

that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.