I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?