Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

Being hungry is the most natural thing in the world

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

This World is not our home, so we don't have to worry about whether it's good or bad. The BETTER it is, the HARDER it is to leave it. The BADDER it is, the EASIER it is to leave it!

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.

It is history that teaches us to hope.