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

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

... 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.

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

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

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

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.