If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

Life is a series of random collisions.

We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.