I believe in free will.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.