"If your insanity leads you to carve up women like Jack the Ripper or the Cleveland Torso Murderer, we clap you away in the funny farm (but neither of those two amateur-night surgeons was ever caught, …"

"I don't believe in writer's block. I think it's a made-up malady. I think it's a way for people to feel bad about themselves."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words make them seem smaller than they were when they were in your head. …"