I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.