Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?