Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.