“The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship”

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

“There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979”

“The best fiction is true.”

“But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.”

“I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.”

“You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on a saddle.”