The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.