What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.