If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

There are reports that if Joe Biden runs for president, he would promise to serve for only one term - because nothing says confidence like promising your presidency would be over quickly.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.