""That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?""

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

"There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images."

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

""He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to.""