The race was on

This is just your unwritten life. You didn’t expect it, it just happened.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

... people notice differences and expect every difference in form to convey some difference in meaning.