There is a relationship between humor and fear. Think of all the gags you ever heard that have to do with dismemberment, or something that's horrible in one way or another, even if it's just horrible in the sense that somebody's being embarrassed. What do kids laugh at? Kids laugh if your fly's down. That's hilarious. But for the kid whose fly is down, it's a horrible situation.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?