"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones."

"I'm baaaack! Did you miss me?"

"I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better--and maybe not all that much better, after all."

"It's hard to be a man when you're afraid."

"I think that the best stories are the ones that are closest to the truth."