I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

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.

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).

When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

All the while, my mind reeled with what had hap

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

If you attack Trump, he's not gonna sit there and take it. He's an alpha male. He's gonna come right back at you and he's gonna keep coming back at you.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.