In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other’s patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?

I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.

One wants to be surprised.

Nobody wants to read about your life. Who cares?

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

I accept any challenge.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.