"The most important thing for you to do is to find a story that you want to tell and then tell it. It's the only way you'll ever get any peace."

"I've always been a fan of the absurd."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

"To understand the man, you have to understand what he wanted. And what he wanted was always the same: to be a writer."

"The best advice I ever got was, 'Don't be afraid to be yourself.'"