They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I didn't know what a Rolex cost to be honest. I'm a Seiko and Timex guy, and always have been.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Something will break very bad.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

This is no place for a girl on fire.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.