Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor."

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

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

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

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