People regard art too highly, and history not enough

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.