I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.