“Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.”

“They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.”

“You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.”

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

“It might have meant something, or it might not have. That was the thing about uncertainty, you were never sure.”

“You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.”

“You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.... when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.”

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying—even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.”

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”