In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.