You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.