“Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.”

“If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.”

“Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.”

“There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.”

“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.”

“You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.”

“I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I’m okay in that respect.” “Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.”