The scariest moment is always just before you start.

I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.