There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?