As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

I've been studying drugs for years.