I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.