The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.