I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.