When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.