“Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.”

“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.”

“Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my job.”

“No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben”

“Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.”

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library, they'd have to send out for more books.”

“The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.”