The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.