“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

“When you are happy it is harder to write”

“Writing is hard…. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

“Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.”

“So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.”

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”

“Death means you are in the third person.”

“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.”

“It is better to leave when When someone takes advantage of your straightforwardness. You should not go where your innocence is made fun of. It is better not to go there, where you are humiliated again and again, the person with whom all this happens, breaks up.”