Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.