“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

“Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife...at the end of it you know you'll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies - but it'll be one hell of a story to tell your friends.”

“When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.”

“Huh. I'm truly a hopeless case. Here I am, in probably the last few moments of not only my life but possibly my entire existence, about to throw myself into the breach most likely to get killed and maybe even completely, absolutely and utterly obliviated, and what am I thinking about? Sex! I really am a guy.”

“The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will.”

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”