and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.