I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.