Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

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.

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

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.