You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.