I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

be careful of monsters with teeth

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.