As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.