There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.