"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries."

"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as yo…"

"Revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

"You know it's funny you should say that, because I was just thinking the other day, isn't it weird, your own farts smell better than anybody else's."

"It's a good idea to remember that whenever you are at any point in time, you are at a point in time, and you're not at the end of time."