The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.