Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.