I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Not real can tell us about real.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?