1. “Some things that makes sense to me don’t make the same degree of sense to other people.”
2. “If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.”
3. “Why we are here is an impenetrable question.”
4. “Never marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.”
5. “The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.”
6. “It’s a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.”
7. “Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”
8. “Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about wat one is writing about.”
9. “What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it.”
10. “If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?”
11. “Creativity is magic, don’t examine it too closely.”
12. “Good writers define reality, Bad ones merely restate it.”
13. “There are only two things to write about: life and death.”
14. “Every monster was a man first.”
15. “Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.”
16. “I suppose if you simplify things, it’s going to make it easier to understand.”
17. “The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.”
18. “Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.”
19. “I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.”
20. “When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.”
