I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.