Skip the boring parts.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

One King means peace.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

And I tell you truly, Danaerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.