You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!

The very important thing you should have is patience.

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.