“A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”

“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.”

“Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.”

“If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.”

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ”

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”