But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!