You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.
You must never be afraid to go there.
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
They minute people fall in love they become liars.
Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
Be careful of monsters with teeth
To say more is to say less.
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.
Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.
Who wants a library full of books you've already read?
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.
The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.
