“Books and beer are the best and worst defense.”

“I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.”

“We writers are the worst kind of cruel,Because we worship our own stories and poems,And what human can compete with metaphors?Writers stand still and yet vacate our homesInside our fantasies. We are word-whores,With libidos and egos of balsa wood.We’d have sex with our books, if only we could.”

“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”

“I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“That's right, I am a book kisser.”