Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.