I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.