The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.