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

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

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

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

“If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.”

“Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.”

“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.”