Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Books are packaged dreams.

Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

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

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.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.