I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.