Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

Write what you love and love what you write.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

Digression is the soul of wit.