What selfish soulwould ask anotherto livethis way.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.