The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.
If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?
I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
My life is a reading list.
I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.