The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.