"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…"

"I have the heart of a small boy—and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

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

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."

"He referred to himself as 'the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.'"