I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.