One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever.