As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Hello! Look at me! I am your reflection.

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.

My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.