Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.