I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

We create eternity out of crumbs of time.

... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell)

I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.