I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

This is the best world that we live in To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow or beg or to get a man's own It is the worst world that ever was known.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace.

It's better not to read your reviews. Just go and do the thing... it would drive you crazy otherwise.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?