I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

Writing is seduction.

Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.