It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.