He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.