I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

And I knew that tone, the pleading, the fear that was sitting like a spiked ball in his chest. He'd been left behind too, maybe more than I had.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.

Boys always get the best lashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law.

If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat

I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarley guesses it isn't the center of yours.