"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."

“I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.”

“They say it is impossible but I've overcome the odds before.”

“If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.”

“With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.”

“Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.”

Source : Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

Source : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

“I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

“In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.”