“I get inspired at different times and in different ways.”

“Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck.”

“Everything looks better with my eyes closed.”

“Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.”

“In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.”

“Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.”

“I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.”