I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

The definition of success is total preparation.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.