You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.

The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother - which, for the record, it had not.

I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in this case it does not.

On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.

One person should never decide what happens to the majority.

Pain is a horribly wonderful gift.

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.