“I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.”
“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.”
“my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch”
“Here comes Johnny!”
“Never rub another mans rhubarb”
“But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we’ll make a better job of it next time. Unless you’re a genius or a fool you realize that everything you write however “successful ” is always a sort of failure. And so you try again.”