Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.