“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.”

“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely.”

“We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.”

“Art depends on luck and talent.”

“I don't see any method at all...Sir”

“If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit.This is the way the world is made now.”

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”