I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

You don't have to have to be rich like Oprah Winfrey or Rihanna to make a difference in somebody's life-To some people ten dollars feels like ten million dollars

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Technology was once a substitute for dealing with people, but today it is at the heart of sociability.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.