Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

If you don’t hear the crows of the roosters in the mornings, you are one cursed city fellow!

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

The world isn't logical, it's a song.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

If the role demands it, then naturally I will remove my clothes.