I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.