There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.