If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.