And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.