The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.