When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.

Eternity is really long, especially near the end.

A man that has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feelings.