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

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

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.

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

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

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

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