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

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.