Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.