Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.