If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.