Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.