"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."

"I'm a slow writer. I'm a fast reader."

"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"

"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as yo…"

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you made it... and that you stood."