Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.