"The best thing to do with a bad book is to burn it."

"I have been trying to learn to use words, and every time I use them, they don't do what I want them to do."

"I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."

"I don't believe in heroes. I believe in people."

"I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'"