[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

One spirit, one shepherd

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

children need calm—they’re artists

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

You must dream big and dream often. Take risks and see what happens.

Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.