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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable. "

" 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'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. "

" I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. "

" I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world. "

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

" Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true. "

" This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth. "

" If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed. "

" I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much. "

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

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

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

" My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth. "

" It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. "

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