“Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.”
“My proctologist keeps in better touch than you do."- Knox”
“You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.”
“I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.”
“The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me”
“I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.”