Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ...Dang, last again.

Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.

Three words for a writer: Make me care.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

It’s a great day to write a best-seller.

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

I wear the writer pants in the family.

Do you remember the time, Mike, ” Jeremy laughed, “that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

The best kind of day is a writing day

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

The materials shape your idea.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.