"People say, 'What is the most important thing for a writer?' I say, 'Don't be boring.'"

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

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different."

"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."

"I think I am a man without a country, except that I have a country, and it's full of people who are as crazy as I am."