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" I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself. "

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" This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them. "

" I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning. "

" I envy Jesus because he's dead. "

" Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all. "

" As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it. "

" I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. "

" I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control. "

" I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do. "

" It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too. "

" I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art. "

" Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true. "

" I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in. "

" I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are. "

" Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier. "

" I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation. "

" I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally. "

" What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? "

" I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else. "

" I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin. "

" In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive. "

" Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day. "

" Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending. "

" The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since. "

" Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't. "

" You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before. "

" I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God. "

" Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny. "

" What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions. "

" Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all. "

" I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you. "