I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.