If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.