Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly!

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.