We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

Dreams age faster than dreamers.