I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Sleep is out... tired is the new black.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.