Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?

What exactly is "midair"? Is there some other part of air besides the "mid" part?

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things.