Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

if there is a god, he sure hates people

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.