In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.