Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.