There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

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.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.