Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.