“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
“You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.”
“I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put.”
“It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.”
“Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.”
“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”