A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.