Mike Shiner: Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.
Ennis Del Mar: You're supposed to mind the sheep, not eat them.
Reed Rothchild: [as Chest Rockwell] Let's get some of that Saturday night beaver.
[Anello family eats steak once a week] Calogero 'C' Anello: I'm not in the mood for steak.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
My household is, in a nice way, very busy.
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.
People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.
The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
