Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Mans knowledge of himself has not kept pace with his knowledge of the physical world.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.