Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.