I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

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

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

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.