Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.

Take the chance! You can!

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

Citties are taken by the eares.

The government can't change the weather.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.