The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find.

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

Oh brother we are not worthy!

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.