If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.