One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.