“Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.”
“When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.”
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”
“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
“Stupid never dies.”