Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.