I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I'm the author of my own misery.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Always move towards the light even if you stumble on your path cause it casts a shadow on the miseries of our past.

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.