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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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