I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.

[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.