Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.