High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

You have to be an outsider to write.