It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.

Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.