Many people want to live in an alternate world. As a writer, it’s my job to put them there.

He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.