“Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.”

“You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.”

“Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.”

“So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.”

“The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.”

“The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.”

“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”

“I think Im very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this...”

“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”

“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”