I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

You have to go where the book leads you.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.