He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Fashion is never wrong.

Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card

Quit yourselves like men.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

If you don't have an ego, you're a wino.

You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.