It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Story is about originality, not duplication

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.