Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It doesn't have anything to do with the right to have an abortion verses the right to life. It has to do with the ability of science to keep things alive and the ability of science to really control our lives.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.