My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.