Quotes About Author

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl... He'll some times have some, like, Top Ramen in it.

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

There are only two possibilities why you're disappointed: wrong person or wrong expectation.

In the world of imperfection, humility is the tool for self greatness.

Self-confidence will eliminate the need for approval and your tunnel vision will soon diminish. It is very bright outside and its waiting for you.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.