If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.