We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.