Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.