She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.