Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.