We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Books are dead men talking.