Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.