When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.