Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.

If you're unhappy, change something.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.