It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding