"The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body."

“When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”

“You can't judge anyone for what they've done, because people change.”

“I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.”

“The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.”

“I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"”

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

“On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”

“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”