Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.