I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

I can't focus on any one day, because I always have to be ready for the next. It's fun but frenetic - like living in a circus that never stops performing.

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make.

We have unfinished personal business I do believe.” He smiled. “And I do love to make you blush.”

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Moderation in all things.