People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.