where the world ends is where you must begin

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.