I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.