You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

You have only one life, make the most of it