Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name ‘Malcolm Price’ was used.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

I've always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn't get made.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.