My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.