Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
If I need something, I'll invent it.
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.