I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.