I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

There’s always someone who knows something.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.