I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The best kind of day is a writing day

Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

Character is a course, finish it.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

He glared at Mr. Diddley’s yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he’d like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

Be superior to pleasure.

In just a few minutes, my son will have completed his first trip around the sun.

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.