The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.