If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.
Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.’
He that jokes confesses.
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the ki...
Maxim 36: When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day.I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.
Dr. Cox: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present, Man Not Caring.[points to self]
What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead one..." Geordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption
Manager! Have brain - use it!
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
Oh! That was poetry! said Pippin. Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
She nibbles her pencil... She's human!
Someone will complete you some day and that day will never be late. Those nouns and verbs are above wonderful and never ending .
There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere t...
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.
We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.