Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.