The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Inspiration is an empty bank account.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

How bad does it have to be before you do something about it?

You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.