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

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

“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.”

“Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead.This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.”

“God, you’re so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?”“On the first of never, Andy. And they wouldn’t be kiggens. They’d be pities.”

“Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.”