Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.