“An overnight success is ten years in the making.”

“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. ”

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”

“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”

“The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.”

“Most things in here don't react well to bullets.”