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.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.