I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.