I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.