Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

You cannot write well without data.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

You have to be consistent and persistent and never give up.

Money doesn't make the things you need. People do.

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb