Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.