“Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.”

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”

“Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.”

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.”

“Be Godzilla. Don't do anything else. Write books about playing Godzilla, talk to reporters about playing Godzilla, but don't do anything else. Just be Godzilla.”

“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”

“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”