I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.