Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain and sorrow. Well acquainted with pain and sorrow, Stephen did not contribute to the discussion. He merely crossed these idiots off his list of possible friends.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.