The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.