Minutes are sometimes like eternities if they are let go.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can’t wear her smiling face to the platform. You’ve got to put that smile on your own face.

It's no good writing if God hasn't given you talent. People will just laugh.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

He that respects not is not respected.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.