You can't polish a turd.

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

The truth is in the details.