Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Only time conquers time and its burdens.