Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!