If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.