Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.