If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.