The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.