If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.