What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.