Impact of Environment Quotes

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Without New York, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.