Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.