Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.