Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

Love is where you find it.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.