So much better to travel than to arrive.

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.