Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.