People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have.