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

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.