“Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didnt know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo”

“I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here.""I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal.""Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Igno...”

“In the back of his mind, he had always wondered whywhy they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.”

“You know, nice guys finish last, don't you?""I guess I'll finish last.”

“Be careful, if I didn't know better, I would think you're sounding jealous.""Good thing you know better.”

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone...”

“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," a...”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”