Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.''All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.''What's so negative about it?' I said.'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said.'"Ignorance,"' I said.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore.

Muszáj törődnöm vele. Valóságos fizikai fájdalmat okoz nekem, ha látom, hogy valamit rosszul csinálnak, amikor pedig olyan könnyen lehet jól is csinálni.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.