I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.