The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.