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The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.
If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.
My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject.
'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.
Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.
You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.
You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.
Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.
To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.
Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.
When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.
Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.
You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
Batroc is a laughable character. I'm the one who always makes fun of him.
In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home!
I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.
I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.