“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me…”

"I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”

“The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it.”

“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all—no one’s around to write horror stories.”

“Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?”

“For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. The words 'My book,' as in 'I'll put that in it one day,' became a sort of running joke. Eventually she said, 'Look, I don't want to offend you, but you've been saying that for 25 years. If you were going to write a book, you'd have done it. You're never going to do it now. Old vets of 50 don't write books.' So I purchased a lot of paper right then and started to write.”

“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”

“If there is only one person who has the right to write the story of your life, that person is you: write it forcefully.”

“It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.”