I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

A pen name is a nickname.

When having that one person in my life and him going away, becomes the difference between life and death, I'll know I am in love.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

I was just getting out of a shootaround in Milwaukee when I found out. I took out my insoles (from my shoes) and I was out of there.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.