Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Mother lode of learning.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.