“My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.”

“Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.”

“I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.”

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.”

“Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”

“I'm an admirer of everything Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, but I don't think he would have stood for this”

“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.”