I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!