Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

Dreams age faster than dreamers.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

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

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.