Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

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.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.