Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.