If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.