What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.