Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.