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

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.