Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.

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.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.