I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.