stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

I'd like to take a motorcycle trip across Europe, maybe even across China. Of course I'd also like to broker a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but it's important to put ceilings on one's ambitions.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.