“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Sorry is the KoolAid of human emotions.”

“You say true, I say thankya.”

“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”

“When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.”