The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.