"You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff."

"Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity."

"Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college."

"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service."

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."