You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

The world nowadays is so perverted. Some people think I'm insane only because they don't understand my point of view.

It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.