All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

To get rid of stress, be yourself and relax.

Understanding do not come by being religious

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away?

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.