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

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.