Good advice is rarer than rubies.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.