"There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?"

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

“I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2011.

“When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes”

Source : "Exclusive: Vera Wang's Career Advice Is Something Every Woman Needs to Hear" by Leah Melby Clinton, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

“In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.”

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”

“Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.”

“Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can somewhat control. You can't affect reviews. But you can try to find your book an audience. One of the problems with the book publishing industry is that their publicity efforts tend to be spent on people who already read, and know how to discover, literary fiction.”

“Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!”