The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.

Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?

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

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?