Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness -- learn something new.

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.-Greg House

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

No, no,” Leo said. “Rainbows. Very macho.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.