I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.