When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.