The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.