No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.