I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Wear the outfit; don't let the outfit wear you.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.