What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute best of our ability while having the wisdom not to take them too seriously.

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.