I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

Data abstraction is the reduction of a particular body of data to a simplified representation of the whole.

Loneliness is not the absence of others, but the absence of oneself.

The story is not in the plot; the plot is what happens, the story is what it means.

"The writer's job is to tell the truth, even when it is inconvenient."