All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?