... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.