All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.