The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.