Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.