I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.