A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.