“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.”

“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”

“I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”