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.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.