What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.