Love is easy, and I love writing.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?