The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Only God gets things right the first time.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.