Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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.

In these silences something may rise

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.