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

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

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.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.