No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.