Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should not happen, but they don't do anything about it much.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.