I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there’s plenty of freedom…

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Radical surgery is never fun.

With Scary Movie 4 I couldn't say no because I loved being in the first one and even though it is a cameo, it's so worth it because it is so much fun to do.

As one thinketh in his heart, so is he.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.